lady OTT, Lord D'Abernon & Buggie
through the eyes of the distinguished Lord D'Abernon
Lord D'Abernon was in his sixties when He and Anita started "going out" together. He made it his habit to drop in to her hotel for tea each afternoon-if the pair hadn't already met up during the day. His one pass as Anita put it-was to ask her if she-would like to retire to the bedroom.
she answered No-
Lord D'Abernon did not ask again-
and that was that-The lady recalls with some regret.
from her book: The first time Lord D'Abernon led me into the drawing room of Lady Ottoline Morrell, she was standing beside the portrait of Lytton Strachey by Augustus John, done when both the painter and his subject were unknown...Lady Ottoline was a fragile beauty who seemed to be floating in a cloud of pink chiffon. Her Ladyship was kindness itself. She took the trouble to send me a note Strachey wrote her, in which he mentioned me as "the divine A." (imagine that!)
I have been reading the autobiography of Anita Loos, "Buggie"-and both volumes are a whirlwind of Hollywood and the English aristocracy in between the great wars.
there is another post about Anita Loos at Little Augury here
"Lady Ottoline got to meet my darling Buggie today."
Lord D' Abernon by Augustus John
Lord D'Abernon was in his sixties when He and Anita started "going out" together. He made it his habit to drop in to her hotel for tea each afternoon-if the pair hadn't already met up during the day. His one pass as Anita put it-was to ask her if she-would like to retire to the bedroom.
she answered No-
Lord D'Abernon did not ask again-
and that was that-The lady recalls with some regret.
Anita Loos
from her book: The first time Lord D'Abernon led me into the drawing room of Lady Ottoline Morrell, she was standing beside the portrait of Lytton Strachey by Augustus John, done when both the painter and his subject were unknown...Lady Ottoline was a fragile beauty who seemed to be floating in a cloud of pink chiffon. Her Ladyship was kindness itself. She took the trouble to send me a note Strachey wrote her, in which he mentioned me as "the divine A." (imagine that!)
I have been reading the autobiography of Anita Loos, "Buggie"-and both volumes are a whirlwind of Hollywood and the English aristocracy in between the great wars.
there is another post about Anita Loos at Little Augury here
OTToLINE & ROSE C'est LA Vie
I do Love the Silhouette. My brother has a lovely collection of them. Friend and Fellow Blogger-Rose of Rose C'est La Vie- did this one of OTT. It highlights her signature Pearls and sets her in a perfect background-her eyes were described as turquoise. Easily recognizable -as are the other Women Rose has Silhouetted- take a Look Here-
OTToLIne is in great company.
the Pearls:
"On our way through Paris my mother had insisted on buying me some very lovely muslin dresses, and for some reason this had greatly upset me; also it was there that she bought for me a row of pearls at the sale of the French crown jewels; she liked to feel that I should wear a row of pearls that had been round the neck of Marie Antoinette. These gifts gave me acute pain... in my distress they seemed a mockery."
Rose's inspiration- Here at Ottoline Divine
return to San Michele
Ottoline-in one of many photographs from her Scrapbooks at the NPG here
One of the blog's to read is at Axel Munthe's villa in Capri-and we can not miss him.
PAUL GERVAIS awaits us here
Though I've tried to forget the Doctor-there are moments when thoughts of our liaison come flooding back to me. TODAY is one of those days. OTT.
summer in Venice
Sand & SEA
Solitude
SEEing
Ottoline with Augustus John
she wrote in her Memoirs...
ITALY has ever been in my Imagination the Land of My Freedom...As I look back on the years that followed IT, and trace My Wanderings, I see I was more in ITALY than in ENGLAND.
Ottoline documented her life in photographs housed in scrapbooks, see more-and these originals at the NPG, HERE.
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